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My Life as a Dog (Hundtrilogin, #1) by Reidar Jönsson; Eivor Martinus is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ingemar copes with the terminal illness and death of his mother. Thirteen-year-old Ingemar Johansson is a survivor. Things have never been easy. But, he figures, they could always be worse. With his father usually away at sea, and his mother dying of tuberculosis and often too weak to care for him, Ingemar has spent much of his life in foster homes, or the Childrens Home, or with his grandparents with whoever would take him. In this wry first-person narrative, Ingemar tells of his life with his aunt and uncle in Smland, where he goes to live off and on for two years, one before and one after his mothers death. In Smland, Ingemar finds more of a family than hes ever known, as well as a cast of comic village eccentrics, with whom he decides he fits in perfectly. Theres the tomboy Saga, who teaches him how to box and introduces him to the mysteries of female adolescence; and Manne, who has green hair because his inventor grandfather makes him bathe in a copper tub. Together with the people of Smland, we watch as Ingemar falls into one outrageous situation after another, always displaying irresistible humour and the fortitude of a true hero. In turns tragic and farcical, and imbued wi

Who reads My Life as a Dog (Hundtrilogin, #1)?

Author

Reidar Jönsson; Eivor Martinus

Publisher

New York: Noonday Press: Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374523794

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14